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An deireadh no An màs
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So far an cuir thu fon an t-sreang bonnach le im agus botul bainne air do shlighe chun a’ chladaich gu bhith agad ma thig an t-acras ort a muigh – mar as tric a thig. So cuideachd far an cuir thu crùbag, no creachan no beathach eisg annasach a thig air do lion beag fhein a bhios tu airson a thoirt dhachaidh leat.
Origin: [Lewis], Dail a Tuath or [Lewis], Suaineabost [Swainbost] or [Lewis], Lional
Category: Acfhuinn Iasgaich / Fishing Tackle
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Còir’ nam Bonnach
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[?]
Origin: Kill-Fhinn
Category: Crodh / Cattle
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[Seanfhacal 36]
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Bonnach air bois, cha bhruich ’s cha loisg.
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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[bonnach a’ bhrosgail]
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“Dh’ith thu bonnach a’ bhrosgail.” – would be said regarding people who did a certain amount of boot licking to obtain something. More usually applied to young children who would behave in this fashion go get their own way.
Location: South Uist, Lochcarnan
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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[bonnach]
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’S fhearr am bonnach beag le beannachd na bonnach mór le mollachd.
Location: South Uist, Lochcarnan
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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[bonnach]
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Rinn mi bonnach arain. – I made a large griddle scone.
Origin: Lochaber
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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[brù]
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“Mar is miann le brù bruichidh bonnach.”
Location: South Uist, Stoneybridge
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bonnach
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Quotation: bonnach donn. Notes: made from oatmeal and fish liver.
Location: Skye, Breakish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bonnach
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Quotation: bonnach donn. Notes: cake made from oatmeal and fish liver.
Location: Skye, Kyleakin
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bonnach
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nn ‘cake, scone’: ~ coirce; ~ buidhe
Location: Canada, Cape Breton, Broadcove
Category: Field Notebooks of Seosamh Watson June-August 1983
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bonnach
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Quotation: Bonnach branndair. Notes: see Branndair.
Origin: Islay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bonnach
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Quot.: “bonnach-eathair”. Note: oatmeal bannock with lumps of suet in it, about 3" thick and only partly baked. Taken out in boats by fishermen.
Origin: Ness
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bonnach
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Quot.: “bonnach-lice”. Note: bannock baked standing up against a flat stone by the fire (as opposed to ‘bonnach-greidil’).
Origin: Ness
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bonnach
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Quotation: bonnach luirgeadh [ɫu̜ðiɡʹəɣ]. Notes: formerly given to a person who reported the birth of a lamb, the birth being unknown to the owner. Within memory it was a raw egg or two that was given. (Dw. lorg 15. Progeny, offspring.)
Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bonnach
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Quotation: bonnach coirce. Notes: oatcake.
Origin: Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bonnach
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Quotation: Bonnach donn. Notes: cod liver, oatmeal, salt. Boiled in water.
Origin: Skye, Torrin
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bonnach
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bannock.
Origin: [Lewis]
Category: Biadh is Deoch / Food and Drink
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bonnach
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Quotation: Thainig am bonnach àbhaisteach a-rithist. Notes: ?
Origin: [North Uist?]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bonnach Brìde
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a special cake which was baked on the first day of spring. Cf. Mr R. Bunton, Stoneybridge, South Uist. Refers to serpent chant associated with St. Bride’s. According to this informant the chant belongs to Celtic mythology which believed that a serpent did come from the ground. Apparently the serpent was the daughter of Ivor.
Location: Barra, Ard Mhinish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bonnach arain
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large scone divided into four and baked on a griddle or oven.
Origin: Lochaber
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bonnach bois
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aig an obair.
Location: Na Hearadh, Gòbhaig [Harris, Gobhaig]
Category: Biadh is Deoch / Food and Drink
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bonnach bois
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thick oatmeal bannock flattened between the palms of the hands and baked in front of the fire.
Origin: Lewis, Uig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bonnach boise
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Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bonnach coirce
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Location: Na Hearadh, Gòbhaig [Harris, Gobhaig]
Category: Biadh is Deoch / Food and Drink
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bonnach comaineach (E)
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Origin: [Lewis, Uig an Iar]
Category: Crodh / Cattle
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bonnach fluir
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Location: Na Hearadh, Gòbhaig [Harris, Gobhaig]
Category: Biadh is Deoch / Food and Drink
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bonnach greideil
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pancake.
Location: [Harris], Leverburgh, Kintulavaig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bonnach grùthainn
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a saithe’s liver mixed with flour. Boiled in the same pot as the saithe but separated by being placed on a plate at the top of the pot.
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bonnach lice
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Location: Na Hearadh, Gòbhaig [Harris, Gobhaig]
Category: Biadh is Deoch / Food and Drink
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bonnach luirg
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a reward, a cake or some kind of food given to person who found or reported the sighting of a young animal such as a lamb or calf.
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bonnach luirg
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expression which asks whether a cow has calved. “An robh bonnach luirg aice fhathast.”
Location: North Uist, Grimsay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bonnach pòisidh
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prior to the advent of modern day wedding cakes, people used to make their own cakes. Mrs C. MacLellan, Lochcarnan, South Uist remembers this tradition too whereby a sponge cake with sultanas was baked covered with icing. [NOTES: ‘pòisidh’ corrected to ‘pòsaidh’.]
Location: Barra, Northbay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bonnach-bois
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[bɔ̃n̪ɑxbɔʃ] Note: an oatmeal cake made with the hands (not using a “clàr-fuinne”) about 1" thick and stood beside the fire to bake.
Origin: Crowlista
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bonnach-bois
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Note: a thick bannock made between the hands and stood upright beside the fire to bake.
Origin: [Lewis], Arnol
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bonnach-boise
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bannock, kneaded by hand.
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bonnach-boise
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Bonnach a bhiodh na cailleachan a’ deanamh air am bois agus ’g a bhruiche ri lic. (Leac, ’se sin leac-arain.) Bha bonnach aca ’s an Eilean Sgitheanach agus ’se ‘bonnach-luathadh’ a bh’aca air.
Origin: [Lewis, Uig an Iar]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bonnach-boiseadh
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Note: hurriedly made bannock, thicker than usual.
Location: Harris, Grosebay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bonnach-buidhe
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Notes: cornmeal bannock.
Location: Canada, Christmas Island
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bonnach-carrach
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Notes: barley bannock, when baked, covered on one side with pancake mixture – flour, sugar and egg, and toasted by the fire until brown, with a spongy covering, sweet tasting.
Location: Lewis, Barvas
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bonnach-carrach
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Note: a bannock, of barley originally, with an egg mix put on top. (He said scrambled eggs.)
Origin: [Lewis], Arnol
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bonnach-cloicheadh
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Notes: bannock made on stone in front of the fire.
Location: Tiree
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bonnach-dorcha
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Notes: wheat-bread.
Location: Canada, Christmas Island
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bonnach-eanchainn
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[bɔ̃n̪ɑxw̃ṉəxĩnʹ] Note: heard of this but not in memory as having been seen – brains of a sheep must have been used in it along with meal – oats or barley.
Origin: [Barvas]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bonnach-fhlùir
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Notes: flour scone.
Location: Romasdal
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bonnach-gropaidh
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Notes: same as ceann cropaic mixture but rolled into a ball.
Location: Skye, Sleat, Calligary
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bonnach-gropaidh
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Notes: same mixture as ceann-cropaic but not boiled in fish-head.
Location: Glendale
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bonnach-grùthain
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a liver-bannock, made by oatmeal and fish liver. [SLIP: A liver bannock (made of oatmeal and fish liver).]
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bonnach-grùthan
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Notes: same mixture as in ceann-cropaic.
Location: Skye, Kilmuir
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bonnach-iomanach
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Notes: when cow was calving, the person in attendance was given the “bonnach iomanach”.
Location: Lewis, Barvas
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bonnach-iomanach
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Note: given to the person who first saw a cow with the “mulad” before the birth of a calf.
Origin: Crowlista
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bonnach-iomanach
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a special bannock given to the person who found a cow after calving.
Origin: Lewis, Uig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bonnach-luirgeadh
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Notes: said to be the reward given to a person by a witch for telling her when someone’s cow had calved. She would then put a spell on the cow to render it dry.
Location: Tiree
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bonnach-thumanach
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[bɔ̃n̪ɑxhũ̟mɑṉɔx] Note: his pronunciation of “bonnach-iomanach”. A “bonnach” with plenty of “ùs” (cheese made with first milk) on it given as a reward to the first person to notice a cow was about to calf (leis a’ mhulad).
Origin: [Lewis], Arnol
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bonnach-òrnaich (?)
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Notes: (Murdo Murray, Back) omelette-type of barley scone, with filling of eggs, cream, etc. Not in Dw. Note that òrna is a var. of eòrna.
Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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branndair
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[bɾɛ̃n̪d̪ɑɾ] Notes: iron grille used for making bannocks at the fire. “Bonnach branndair”.
Origin: Islay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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breacag
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[bɾɛkɑɡ] Note: bonnach le geadan de losgadh air.
Origin: [Lewis], Arnol
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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clòimh liath
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nn ‘blue-mould’: dh’fhàs ~ air bonnach muntàta
Location: Canada, Cape Breton, Broadcove
Category: Field Notebooks of Seosamh Watson June-August 1983
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deàrnag-muire
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Notes: ‘bonnach le grùthan ga phruich ris an teine’.
Location: Lewis, Point
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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falaid
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[fɑɫɑdʹ] Notes: in baking – the dry flour or oatmeal spread out on the baking board, and worked into the “bonnach”.
Location: Harris
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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iminneach
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adj. : bonnach ~ ‘buttercake’ [MAE]
Location: Canada, Cape Breton, Broadcove
Category: Field Notebooks of Seosamh Watson June-August 1983
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leac
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Quotation: leac nam bonnach. Notes: flat stone put beside the fire for toasting scones.
Location: Skye, Kilmuir
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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lorg
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Quotation: bonnach luirgeadh [ɫu̜ðiɡʹəɣ]. Notes: formerly given to a person who reported the birth of a lamb, the birth being unknown to the owner. Within memory it was a raw egg or two that was given. (Dw. lorg 15. progeny, offspring.)
Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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‘bonnach-silidh’
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sponge. This perhaps is an invented term.
Location: Harris, Scalpay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
